91涩漫

The next talk in our 2025-2026 91涩漫 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Mark Baker (Rutgers University) on Friday March 20th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Obligatory Control into Propositional Complements Abstract: This paper considers three puzzles about obligatory control (OC) with so-called propositional verbs like claim in English (Chris claimed (to the judge) to […]

On Sunday, some linguists enjoyed x-country skiing on Mont Royal!

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Mar 9th, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Kuilin will be presenting聽Schertz, J. (2025). Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101376聽(attached). All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Congratulations聽to Siva Reddy who has won a prestigious聽2026聽Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers! You can read all about it here.

The next P* group presentation will be on聽Monday, Feb 23, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽Natalia will be presenting her聽Honours Thesis聽(attached),聽Impoverished Nuclei in Lushootseed: A CVC Analysis.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 19th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 91涩漫 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz (91涩漫) will be presenting聽“Hidden structure in the composition of degree DPs鈥�. Here is the abstract:

GLAM kicked off the new term with a winter outing that brought together new arrivals and returning members of the Department for an afternoon of skating and pizza in downtown Montreal on January 31st. Everyone laced up their skates and enjoyed the crisp January air at Esplanade Tranquille. Check out the photos below! After skating, […]

The next talk in our 2025-2026 91涩漫 Linguistics聽Colloquium聽Series will be given by聽Dr. Kate Mooney聽(University of Maryland, College Park) next Friday,聽February 20th聽at聽3:30pm聽at聽Leacock 232.聽The details of the talk are given below. Title: Explaining asymmetries between (morpho-)phonological and phonetic operations Abstract: Phonological patterns often bear morphological restrictions. In both SPE-style rules and Optimality Theory, these partially productive alternations are often […]

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Feb 16,聽12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽Heather聽will be presenting a paper (below)聽on Epenthetic Inheritance by our聽upcoming聽colloquium聽speaker,聽Kate Mooney. All聽relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this聽Google Drive.

Xuanda Chen has been awarded a postdoctoral position in the lab of Prof聽Haizhou Li in the School of Artificial Intelligence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen.聽Congratulations聽Xuanda!

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 12th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 91涩漫 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Jessica Coon and Michael Wagner (91涩漫) will be presenting “Reconsidering animacy hierarchy effects in Mayan:Experimental evidence from Ch’ol鈥� (joint work with Stefan Keine (UCLA) and Juan V谩zquez 脕lvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM)) Here […]

We’re delighted to announce that Tal Linzen will be giving a colloquium this Thurs (Feb 12th) at 11:45 over zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86483387308?pwd=2NXkhS1itsS4uYvJIS3tAy3pd9ZE0d.1 All linguistics faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. Cognitive science for, and using, large language models For decades, the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science have aimed to create systems that learn […]

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Feb 9, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Myriam and Alessio will be presenting their work. Title: Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in Pan茫ra vowel acoustics Abstract: This study examines how two dimensions of phonological prominence鈥攑honemic length and lexical stress鈥攁ffect the acoustic formant space of vowels in Pan茫ra, a […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 5th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 91涩漫 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Laurestine Bradford (91涩漫) will be presenting 鈥淭lingit Spatial Roots鈥� Here is the abstract:

The article 鈥淣atural language and external conventions: re-examining聽per鈥�, co-authored by Alan Bale and Bernhard Schwarz, has just appeared online at Linguistics and Philosophy:聽https://rdcu.be/e1ian. The abstract is below. Abstract We argue that per-phrases like two grams per liter exhibit a dual interpretive pattern. When such phrases saturate predicates of quantities in simplex dimensions, like weight or distance, they are […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Feb 2,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Tony will be presenting Bybee, J., & Easterday, S. (2022). Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change, 13(1), 1-33. (Attached) All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.